TO LEON TYSZKA

Written:Written on July 20, 1910Published:First published in 1925 inLenin Miscellany III.

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      Moscow,Volume 36,

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WerterGenosse,[1]

Ihave just learned from Warski that two of theGolospeople (whowereat the plenum) arealreadyin Russia.
The situation is critical. Since the plenum, we have lostthreeBolsheviks.[2]We can’t afford any more. It’s all
up, unless the Poles come to our rescue. It’s all over, unless
you get a second Polish C.C. man, and send him along
with Hanecki for 2–3 weeks, in order to convoke the
collegiumat all costs onlyto carry through the “measures” and
for co-opting
purposes.[3]It depends on you. We have done
everything possible, lost three, can’t afford any more.
Write to me as follows: Mr. Oulianoff. Rue Mon Désir.
Villa les Roses.Pornic(Loire-Inférieure). France. I shall
be there until August 23—then at
Copenhagen.[4]

Warmgreetings to Rosa.

Yours,N. Lenin

[1]DearComrade.—Ed.

[2]Soonafter the C.C. Plenum in January 1910, I. F. Dubrovinsky
(Innokenty), V. P. Nogin (Maker) and I. P. Goldenberg (
Meshkovsky) were arrested in Russia.

[3]Areference to the convocation of the Russian section (collegium)
of the C.C. and co-optation of new members. The latter became
necessary because of the arrest of a number of C.C. members
elected at the London Congress in 1907. The liquidators, who took a
negative attitude to the resumption of C.C. activity in Russia,
strongly opposed the meeting of the remaining C.C. members and
co-optation of new ones. Their formal refusal to take part in the effort
to restore the C.C. served as the immediate cause for the
cancellation of the agreement concluded at the C.C. Plenary Meeting
in January 1910. As a result of Lenin’s insistent demand J. J.
Marchlewski went to Russia.

[4]Areference to Lenin’s trip to Copenhagen for the Eighth
International Socialist Congress of the Second International.